These are challenging times for schools for the deaf. State budget cuts. Pressure from No Child Left Behind. More deaf kids from non-English speaking families. Aging facilities. Rhode Island School ... Read More

In the United Kingdom, a deaf man who set up a business to provide British Sign Language interpreters online has received the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs. Andrew Thomson, the ... Read More

An About.com visitor asked this question: I also would like to take a cruise accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people who do not use sign language as their primary ... Read More

One thing I have discovered since getting a cochlear implant, is that hearing people make a lot of small talk. For example, this morning in the elevator at the office, ... Read More

The Fookem & Bug blog (Bug, this time) has an item about how a deaf couple that had been on Extreme Home Makeover is about to lose their home due ... Read More

Sabinemac posted on the forum: I am the grandmother of an 11 year old deaf child; we live in Guyana South America where there are no schools with really qualified teachers ... Read More

Am I lipreading or am I hearing? That is the question I was asking myself today, when I participated in a team meeting after we had been kicked out of ... Read More

New Scientist has a report that scientists have discovered that infrared light can stimulate the neurons that send sound signals to the brain, the same way that hair cells in ... Read More

When I am much older, if I ever hear music in my ear, it probably will be "Do, re, mi." That's the song that stuck with me throughout childhood, from ... Read More

High school students (and community college or college) who excel in sign language studies have a chance to add something outstanding to their resumes: membership in the American Sign Language ... Read More

HHissues has posted an interesting article in the Hearing Research topic folder on the forum, "Dangerous Decibels? Are Movies Too Loud?" This is an article about how the loudness of ... Read More

Recently I chatted with a hearing person whose hard of hearing sister is gradually losing her hearing. She commented that her sister's speech seems to be deteriorating as she loses ... Read More

Not everything is on the internet. The November 2008 issue of SIGNews has as its cover story, an original article about how the failure of the Silver State Bank in ... Read More

Tests of captioned radio during the elections were a resounding success, according to a press release published in the International Business Times. Surveys of deaf and hard of hearing people ... Read More

Such pills are coming ever closer to reality. Researchers at the University of Michigan Kresge Hearing Research Institute found that a cocktail of vitamins A, C and E, plus magnesium ... Read More

On October 8, 2008, Bush signed into law the Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act. What this act does, among other things, is that it entitles parents to more ... Read More

Janisko1 has a challenging question on the forum asking how to handle a deaf or hard of hearing customer whose speech is not understandable. I can understand her trepidation as ... Read More

When I say "balance," I am not referring to balancing your checkbook. I am referring to balance as in being able to stand up and walk comfortably. When I first ... Read More

Deaf Studies is an academic field that seems to be available at few colleges and universities. I only know of a handful of colleges and universities that have Deaf Studies ... Read More

According to the Brantford Expositor, a new Cineplex theater is opening soon in Brantford, Canada. This theater will not have captioning display capability. It is a digital cinema, and "There ... Read More

Katie on the forum wants to know if there are any music clubs in the New York City metro area that "tailor" the music experience to meet the needs of ... Read More